Dear all,

I am a newbie in the site, hi, nice to meet you all. This is a very nice forum with useful info.
I live and work in Scotland and I have been offered an attractive research position to work in Basel in a large pharma. Been there once and it looks like a decent place to live. I quite like moving there.

However, I am a bit concerened on my move from Scotland to Basel. I am the proud owner of 9 cats and 2 dogs, which I would like to bring over eventually. They are all microchipped, vaccinated (rabies also), with EU passports and comply with the entry requirements. It easy enough to have them in my house in Scotland (owned), but I am concerned on how tolerant a landlord would be on having pets in their rented property. In my experience, when I have tried to move to England (London/Cambridge) in the past, it has not been possible to get the cats with me. The standard policy was no pets allowed. I suppose and hope that the Swiss are more pet friendly.

I would like to ask the forum for people's experiences on having pets in rented accommodation, especially in Basel, how to go about it in searching for it and if I should specifically target specific types of accommodation, i.e. houses rather than flats. I want to move there, but I need my pets with me ideally, I hope it will be possible.
Any advice welcome.

Many thanks

Antonis